14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, several Apple services, including Apple Maps, the App Store, and Apple Music, went down mysteriously, making it impossible for users to connect to them.
While Apple didn’t provide too many specifics on the downtime recorded by its services, reports online suggested that even the internal services suffered an outage. Apple, however, restored everything after a couple of hours.
Fast forward to today, and here we are once again reporting on an outage experienced by Apple’s services.
The second outage of the week for Apple
The company has already confirmed that Apple Music, App Store, iMessage, Podcast, and Apple Books are all down at the time of press.
For example, Apple says that in the case of the App Store, users are unable to access the platform. The Mac App Store downtime blocks users from signing in or making purchases. When it comes to the Podcasts service, Apple only says it’s looking into the problem.
On the other hand, the outage doesn’t seem as massive as the one recorded yesterday. The number of services affected by the downtime is significantly smaller, with Apple Maps, for example, still up and running with no issue whatsoever.
UPDATE: Apple has just resolved all outages, claiming that everything is now working properly. In other words, if you’ve encountered any problems with the services named above, you should now be able to use them properly.
Downloading and buying apps from the App Store is also working correctly.
Once again, Apple hasn’t provided any information on what caused the problem, so the good news is everything is back and running as expected in all regions across the world. At first glance, users in the United States have been primarily hit by the outage, but connection problems have also been reported in other parts of the world as well.